CROATIA TO ATTEND CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS CONFERENCE IN GENEVA

GENEVA, April 21 (Hina) - A Croatian delegation arrived in Geneva on Sunday to attend a conference on conventional weapons that takes place in the Palace of Nations from April 22 to May 4. The two-week conference involving about 40 countries would be a sequel to the Vienna conference of September 1995 when no agreement was reached on changing the text of a convention on land mines, boobytraps and mines triggered by remote control. Participants in the meeting were expected to adopt a new text of Protocol II to resolve legal aspects of the problem by formulating stricter definitions of mines and possibly banning their production, use and sale. Croatia was particularly interested in the handling of this problem as about three million land mines had been scattered in some parts of its territory during Serbian aggression. (hina) vm 211430 MET apr 96